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Porgy and Bess (1959)
Directed by Otto Preminger
Overview
Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
Length 138 minutes
Actors
Sidney Poitier | Dorothy Dandridge | Sammy Davis Jr. | Pearl Bailey | Brock Peters | Diahann Carroll | Leslie Scott | Ruth Attaway | Claude Akins | Clarence Muse | Everdinne Wilson | Ivan Dixon | Scatman Crothers | Maya Angelou | Nichelle Nichols